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In rare cases, pernicious anemia is passed down through families. This is called congenital pernicious anemia. Babies with this type of anemia do not make enough intrinsic factor. Or they cannot properly absorb vitamin B12 in the small intestine.
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Pernicious anemia is a relatively rare autoimmune disorder that causes diminishment in dietary vitamin B12 absorption, resulting in B12 deficiency and subsequent megaloblastic anemia. It affects people of all ages worldwide, particularly those over 60. Despite the advances in understanding, making the diagnosis can be challenging for clinicians due to its complexity, broad spectrum of clinical presentation, and limitations of the currently available diagnostic tests. Once diagnosed, prompt treatment with B12 supplementation commonly reverses the patient's anemia; however, they will require lifelong supplementation and monitoring. This activity reviews the etiology, evaluation, and treatment of pernicious anemia and highlights the role of the interprofessional team in evaluating and treating patients with this condition.
Objectives:
- Describe the etiology of pernicious anemia. Select diagnostic testing based on clinical evidence.Implement the guideline-recommended treatment for patients with pernicious anemia. Explain the roles of an interprofessional team in the evaluation and management of patients with suspected pernicious anemia.
Pernicious anemia is found in up to 25% of patients with autoimmune gastritis (AIG), which affects the corpus and fundus, spares the antrum, and is characterized by antiparietal cell antibodies destroying parietal cells located only in the oxyntic mucosa, which produce IF and hydrochloric acid. In turn, achlorhydria causes a decrease in the release of cobalamin bound to dietary protein, and fewer parietal cells are available to produce the IF needed for dietary B12 absorption. The term pernicious anemia has been used at times as a synonym for AIG; however, it is considered a late-stage manifestation as a part of the AIG clinical spectrum.[2][3][4]
Pernicious anemia is a relatively rare condition, with a prevalence of less than 1% in populations of European ancestry. Worldwide, pernicious anemia is a common cause of megaloblastic anemia; it affects people of all ages, particularly those over 60-70 (2% prevalence); it affects both sexes with a varying geographical female-to-male ratio; and the prevalence is lower in those of Asian descent compared to other studied populations.[10][11][12]
The primary pathophysiological mechanism in pernicious anemia is diminished dietary B12 absorption due to IF deficiency. Vitamin B12 is found in meat, eggs, and dairy products and is essential for erythropoiesis and nerve myelination; therefore, its deficiency can lead to megaloblastic anemia due to disrupted DNA synthesis and demyelinated nerves. B12 deficiency causes megaloblastic changes in all formed blood elements, but erythrocytes show the most significant changes, with the degree of anemia corresponding to the severity of red blood cell morphologic changes.[13]
A neuropsychiatric evaluation may be required.[25] Additionally, the clinician should inquire whether the patient, a parent, or a sibling has diabetes mellitus type 1, vitiligo, or hypothyroidism because a positive personal or family history of an autoimmune condition increases the pretest probability of pernicious anemia.[26]
Folate levels should be determined to exclude macrocytic anemia secondary to folate deficiency and because treating B12-deficient patients with folate alone may worsen associated neurologic damage.[23] Iron deficiency anemia is present in up to 50% of patients with AIG, and pernicious anemia is present in up to 25% of patients with AIG[2]; therefore, an iron panel is indicated in patients diagnosed with pernicious anemia.
Follow-up serology will include anti-IF antibodies with or without antiparietal cell antibodies. Anti-IF antibodies are 40 to 60% sensitive in detecting pernicious anemia, with the rate of positivity rising with disease progression. The specificity of anti-IF antibody testing is almost 100%. Although antiparietal cell antibodies are present in 90% of patients with pernicious anemia, they are less specific than anti-IF antibodies. Notably combining the two has been shown to significantly increase their diagnostic performance for pernicious anemia (73% sensitivity and 100% specificity).[28][33]
According to the British Committee for Standards in Hematology, all patients with anemia, neuropathy, or glossitis, and suspected of having pernicious anemia, should be tested for anti-IF antibodies regardless of cobalamin levels. Secondly, the committee recommends anti-IF antibody testing in patients found to have a low serum cobalamin level in the absence of anemia and who do not have food malabsorption or other causes of deficiency to clarify whether they have an early or latent presentation of pernicious anemia. Thirdly, antiparietal cell antibody testing for diagnosing pernicious anemia is not recommended.[26]
As mentioned earlier, pernicious anemia is found in up to 25% of patients with AIG as a late-stage manifestation. Because autoimmune chronic atrophic gastritis is characterized by an elevated fasting serum gastrin level, the fasting serum gastrin assay can play a role in establishing a pernicious anemia diagnosis in difficult cases.[27][28] Moreover, a deficiency in gastric intrinsic factor output after pentagastrin stimulation is specific for the diagnosis of pernicious anemia and can be used when evaluating serological markers in certain patients.[34]
According to a 2021 American Gastroenterological Association clinical practice update, patients with a new pernicious anemia diagnosis who have not had a recent endoscopy should undergo endoscopy with topographical biopsies to confirm corpus-predominant atrophic gastritis for risk stratification and to rule out prevalent gastric neoplasia, including neuroendocrine tumors.[3]
Lifelong treatment for patients with confirmed pernicious anemia starts with an intramuscular (IM) injection of 1000 micrograms of B12 (hydroxocobalamin in Europe or cyanocobalamin in the United States) administered daily or every other day for 1 to 2 weeks, followed by weekly injections for 1 to 2 months, then a monthly injection (cyanocobalamin) or every 2 to 3 months (hydroxocobalamin).[11][16][21][26]
Before the discovery of treatment, pernicious anemia could be fatal.[13] The prognosis since has been excellent with appropriate management, except for patients diagnosed with SCD. Although B12 supplementation stops progression and improves neurologic deficits in most patients with SCD, evidence shows complete resolution only occurs in a small percentage of them.[24] After treatment initiation for pernicious anemia, reticulocytosis begins approximately 5 days later, followed by red blood cell count normalization within 4 to 6 weeks.[11] Typically, neurological symptom improvement is slower than hematological improvement, and the degree of neurological recovery is inversely proportional to the severity and duration of symptoms before treatment. Psychiatric symptoms such as emotional lability and psychosis may rapidly improve.[36]
Patients with pernicious anemia are at an increased risk of gastric cancer. An international meta-analysis of over 22,000 patients with pernicious anemia found a pooled gastric cancer incidence of 0.27% per person-year. The same study showed a pooled gastric cancer recurrence rate of 6.8.[37]
American Gastroenterological Association (2021): "Providers should recognize pernicious anemia as a late-stage manifestation of autoimmune gastritis that is characterized by vitamin B-12 deficiency and macrocytic anemia. Patients with a new diagnosis of pernicious anemia who have not had a recent endoscopy should undergo endoscopy with topographical biopsies to confirm corpus-predominant atrophic gastritis for risk stratification and to rule out prevalent gastric neoplasia, including neuroendocrine tumors."[3]
Patients with pernicious anemia can present in one or more clinical settings due to this insidious condition's wide array of potential manifestations. They may be seen by providers in the area(s) of nutrition, primary care, hematology, gastroenterology, neurology, psychiatry, rheumatology, and endocrinology, to name a few. Making the correct diagnosis will include laboratory scientists and may also include pathologists. Once diagnosed, the patient's care may involve a medical assistant, nurse, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, physician, and pharmacist.
Causes of megaloblastic anemia other than impaired IF production include folic acid deficiency, altered pH in the small intestine, and lack of absorption of vitamin B12 complexes in the terminal ileum. Thus, pernicious anemia must be differentiated from other disorders that interfere with the absorption and metabolism of vitamin B12 (see DDx and Workup).
Clinical onset of pernicious anemia usually is insidious and vague. The classic triad of weakness, sore tongue, and paresthesias may be elicited but usually is not the chief symptom complex. Typically, medical attention is sought because of symptoms suggestive of cardiac, renal, genitourinary, gastrointestinal, infectious, mental, or neurologic disorders. Blood studies show anemia with macrocytic cellular indices. See Presentation.
Provide concurrent treatment with folic acid and cobalamin in patients who demonstrate evidence for folic acid deficiency but also are being evaluated for pernicious anemia until the latter diagnosis has been ruled out, because although folic acid will restore blood counts, it will not prevent the development of subacute combined system degeneration in patients with pernicious anemia.
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